Whip-socket attachment



(No Model.)

D. D. FfiAsER.

WHIP SOCKET ATTACHMENT.

No. 423,679. Patented Mar. 18, 1890. a

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL D. FRASER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WHIP-SOCKET ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,679, dated March 18, 1890.

Application filed August 5, 1889- Serial No. 319,721. {No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL D. FRASER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vhip-Socket Attachments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in attaching devices for whip-sockets, and is designed more particularly as an improvement on the device for which I obtained Letters Patent, No. 403,260, dated May 14, 1889; and it has for its object to provide a stronger and better attachment than employed in my former device, dispensing with the perforation of the encircling band, which I have found from practice to very materially weaken it and lessen its life.

The novelty in the present instance resides in the peculiarities of construction of the clamping-bracket and the novel construction, arrangement, and adaptation of parts where byI lessen the number of parts, decrease the cost, and provide a more efficient and durable attaching means, all as more fully hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and then particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

The accompanying drawings clearly illustrate my present invention, in which drawings like letters refer to like parts throughout the different views, and in which- Figure l is a side elevation, partly in vertical section, of a whip-socket provided with 7 my improvement. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line a; 0c of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the clamping-bracket detached.

Referring now to the detailsof construction, A designates a whip-socket of any approved form and material.

B is my improved clamp-bracket formed 1 with parallel bars B, having concaved under faces B conforming to the shape of the socket so as to fit closely thereagainst. At one end this bracket is formed with a right-angled portion 13 from which projects inward into the loop of the bracket a stud or pin B A lateral portion B is provided with an aperture B, to receive the binding and clamping screw end is formed with an aperture 0, which is 7 fitted over the stud B of the bracket, as shown in Fig. 2. After passing around the socket the other end of the band is passed through the loop B up against the ou-t'erface of the cross-bar B thence across the bracket and parallel with the lateral portion B thereof. The set or clamping screw D is then" passed through an opening in this end of the band or ring and engages the screw-threaded opening B in the lateral portion 13 of the bracket, thus holding the parts firmlyin position. This 0011- struction, it will be observed, avoids the use of the transverse screw'D in my former device, which, passing twice through the band or ring and through an opening in the bracket, I have found greatly weaken ed the" parts and lessened its durability.

Besides forming a more durable connection,

the stud or pin on the bracket forms a better and more secure means of attachment than the screw of the old device. I

Instead of forming the stud as shown in Fig. 3, I may sometimes prefer remake it in the form as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2; but both forms serve sufficiently to hold the end of the band.

In order to avoid cutting away of the band or encircling ring where it passes through the loop 13", I form said loop slightly extended at the ends, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, so that the interiorspace of the loop will be at least'equal to that of the outer dimensions of the clamping-bracket, so that the encircling band may be readily passed through between the loop B and the cross-bar B without decreasing the width of the-band.

What I claim as new is- 1. In a Whip-socket-attaching device, the.

an encircling band or ring having one end secured to the said stud and the other end held i to the bracket by means extending at right angles to the stud, substantially as set forth. 2. In a whip-socket-attaching device, a bracket formed with substantially parallel sides, with a cross-bar at one end and a loop v at said bar end, and at the opposite end with 4. In whip -socketattaching device, a bracket formed with stud B lateral portion B having opening 13, and at the opposite end the cross-bar B and loop E the encircling band having one end held by said stud and the other end, after passing through between said loop and cross-bar, extending across the bracket lengthwise thereof, and a screw passed through an opening in the end of the band and engaging the opening in the lateral portion of the bracket independent of the first mentioned end, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

I DANIEL D. FRASER. WVitnesses:

v H. J. EDWARDS, J. J. WILSON. 

